Features|Winter 2016/17
Ways of Seeing
Patients, radiologists, and specialists share how advances in imaging technologies are offering more precise diagnoses and treatments—and guiding medical and surgical procedures in real time.
Winter 2016/17
Opening doors to new frontiers in research and care.
Patients, radiologists, and specialists share how advances in imaging technologies are offering more precise diagnoses and treatments—and guiding medical and surgical procedures in real time.
How do researchers convert their lab discoveries into treatments and cures? From the earliest stages of basic science, translational researchers search for answers that matter most to patients.
Clinical trials do more than bring new drugs and devices to market. Scientists share how clinical trials shape—and challenge—what we know about medicine.
Opening doors to new frontiers in research and care.
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New research from BWH hints certain interventions may be equally or more effective than statin medications for cholesterol.
Colored 3D diffusion imaging—using MRI technology and computer analysis—maps the brain’s white matter tracts, or fibers.
A six-hour flight from Boston to London can cause worse jet lag than flying nearly the same distance from Boston to Los Angeles.
Waking up on a chilly winter morning seems to aggravate chronic joint pain associated with arthritis.
Betsy Nabel, MD, reflects on the opening of the Building for Transformative Medicine.
BWH’s chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine describes dangerous conditions faced by MDs, nurses, and humanitarian workers.
400 million blood draws are performed each year in the U.S.
Learn more about the Building for Transformative Medicine, one of the most advanced patient care and research facilities in USA.
Hear some members of Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital’s Stroke Support Group talk about their worry-free weekend at the camp.
Meet three patients who are already benefiting from the innovation and collaboration housed in this state-of-the-art facility.
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, moderates a panel with President Barack Obama and healthcare innovators at the Conference.
Jorge Plutzky, MD, director of preventive cardiology at BWH, shares stories.
